© Dr. Frank Crane
It takes grit to do anything worth doing.
All real progress is upstream. All the real crowns -- soul-crowns and achievement crowns -- are rewards of fighting.
It takes grit --
To be patient,
To keep your temper
To improve your mind,
To exercise, and keep your body fit,
To diet, that is, to eat for health and not for sport.
To save money,
To push your business
To tell the truth,
To keep your mind clean, your mouth clean, and your soul clean,
To say no,
To do what you don't want to do, which means discipline,
To pay your debts,
To be loyal - to your ideals, to your wife, to your husband, to your friend, to your country,
To say, "I don't know,"
To do your own thinking,
To resist the mob,
To be honest, simple, and straight,
And not to worry.
But these things are easy:
To be irritable,
To give way to impulse, to say, "I can't help it," and to make no effort to control yourself,
To be mentally lazy, read nothing but trash, and have no habits of study,
To loaf, and to exercise only when you feel like it,
To eat what you please,
To wait for something to turn up,
To lie, to be disloyal and to be unclean,
To agree with those you feel to be wrong, just to avoid trouble,
To side-step
To go in debt, and to say "Charge it!"
To join something and use partisanship for loyalty,
To go with the crowd,
To acquire a bad habit, and to nurse it along,
To follow your impulses and not your intelligence,
To fill your body with disease, your mind with error, and your soul with evil,
To slump, to pity yourself, to make excuses for yourself, to magnify your ego & ruin your character.
It's easy going down.
It takes grit to go up, to get on, and even to keep decent.
Time flies so fast.
This new year, let us wholeheartedly look back at our yesterdays; learn from it, and use it to change for the better. After all... the best changes often start as a single, simple thought.
It takes grit to do anything worth doing. Think big, and you will discover a tenfold of remarkable ways to the realization of your dreams. ♥
Happy new year! :)
It takes grit to do anything worth doing.
All real progress is upstream. All the real crowns -- soul-crowns and achievement crowns -- are rewards of fighting.
It takes grit --
To be patient,
To keep your temper
To improve your mind,
To exercise, and keep your body fit,
To diet, that is, to eat for health and not for sport.
To save money,
To push your business
To tell the truth,
To keep your mind clean, your mouth clean, and your soul clean,
To say no,
To do what you don't want to do, which means discipline,
To pay your debts,
To be loyal - to your ideals, to your wife, to your husband, to your friend, to your country,
To say, "I don't know,"
To do your own thinking,
To resist the mob,
To be honest, simple, and straight,
And not to worry.
But these things are easy:
To be irritable,
To give way to impulse, to say, "I can't help it," and to make no effort to control yourself,
To be mentally lazy, read nothing but trash, and have no habits of study,
To loaf, and to exercise only when you feel like it,
To eat what you please,
To wait for something to turn up,
To lie, to be disloyal and to be unclean,
To agree with those you feel to be wrong, just to avoid trouble,
To side-step
To go in debt, and to say "Charge it!"
To join something and use partisanship for loyalty,
To go with the crowd,
To acquire a bad habit, and to nurse it along,
To follow your impulses and not your intelligence,
To fill your body with disease, your mind with error, and your soul with evil,
To slump, to pity yourself, to make excuses for yourself, to magnify your ego & ruin your character.
It's easy going down.
It takes grit to go up, to get on, and even to keep decent.
Time flies so fast.
This new year, let us wholeheartedly look back at our yesterdays; learn from it, and use it to change for the better. After all... the best changes often start as a single, simple thought.
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It takes grit to do anything worth doing. Think big, and you will discover a tenfold of remarkable ways to the realization of your dreams. ♥
Happy new year! :)
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